Larisa Yudina

Soprano

• Prize-winner at the International Rimsky-Korsakov Young Opera Singers’ Competition (St Petersburg, 1998 and 2000) • Prize-winner at the International Diaghilev Young Opera Singers’ Competition (Perm, 1997) • Recipient of the Elena Obraztsova special prize at the IV International Elena Obraztsova Young Opera Singers’ Competition (St Petersburg, 2005)

Larisa Yudina studied music at the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire. Soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Singers from 1998. Mariinsky Theatre soloist since 2009.

Larisa Yudina frequently performs on tour. In 2003 she performed the role of Cleopatra (La Cleopatra, production by Jonathan Miller) at the opera house in Graz as part of the Graz– European City of Culture 2003 programme; in 2006 she performed the roles of Lucia (Lucia di Lammermoor) and the Queen of the Night (Die Zauberflöte) in Boston, Chicago and New York.

With the Mariinsky Opera Company, Larisa Yudina has toured to Great Britain, France, Austria, Germany, Italy, Denmark, the Netherlands, Finland, the USA, Canada Estonia; she has taken part in music festivals in Germany, Finland and Estonia. She has also collaborated with Valery Gergiev, Gianandrea Noseda, Boris Gruzin and Constantine Orbelian. In the 2009-2010 season she took part in a performance of The Infernal Comedy featuring John Malkovich.